I do “international date nights” with my girlfriend, where we pick a country and make some food from it and enjoy a bit of its culture.
Tonight is Bulgaria. We’re making tarator (cold cucumber soup) and shopska salad and drinking a Bulgarian mavrud red wine and snacking on kashkaval sheep’s cheese. I’ve gotta introduce my gf to some chalga music while we make dinner, and we’ll watch the Bulgarian movie “In the Heart of the Machine” while we eat – it’s about a group of prisoner factory workers in communist-era Bulgaria who find a pigeon trapped inside of a machine and they work together to rescue it.
That’s great!
That sounds like a great idea!
Vegan beef wellington, mashed potatoes, and gravy
What is vegan beef wellington? Sounds like a good meal!
Made this one: https://www.noracooks.com/vegan-wellington/
It looks good, I’ll have to make it!
Chicken pot pi
I see what you did there…
Same here. Apple pi for dessert! 😋
Made some pizza

Always a good choice!
Dumplings
A Buffalo chicken pizzoli from Marcos. First time I’ve had one, and it was actually really good!
Don’t want to cook tonight. Clotted cream (microwave heavy cream until all the water’s gone) on raisin swirl bread and a can of soup.
Soup and bread is genuinely great if you have them available and don’t want to put effort into cooking. It’s the right kind of simple and hearty thing that helps when you feel run down
Chicken, rice, and corn.
I cursed myself by mentioning it yesterday, so I’m having beef shanks braised in homemade tomato sauce with red wine, and homemade fettuccine.
Just got done cutting the pasta. I should be eating in a half hour. I’ve been cooking for two and a half.
I only keep going because I know it will be worth it.
ETA: OMG it was so worth it
Had chicken satay tacos. Very happy with how they turned out .
Leftover take out Chinese from Friday.
Pizza pi closing at work.
Ramen.
We had curry, but the rice cooker lied twice about being done so I’m looking into a new rice cooker because this one is naughty sometimes.
Had some leftover bbq from a smokehouse and also some sushi. Time and energy are stuff I don’t have anymore.





